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  • image SM volume 68/28
Drawing. SM volume 68/28. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama

Reference number

SM volume 68/28

Purpose

[3] Variant design

Aspect

As SM volume 68/27 except that the Latin inscription is on the entablature (as with SM volume 68/26), the recessed tablets are as SM volume 68/26. New is the rusticated lower one-third of the screen and the date is placed on a plinth between steps

Inscribed

as above and (Soane) Agriculture / Liberality / Commerce / Justice, The Latin inscription to be put upon the Plinth in the room of the date / The date to be engraved on the die of the Piedestal.

Signed and dated

  • August 1793
    John Soane Archt and Great Scotland Yard August 1793

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia wash, pencil with triple-ruled pen and black wash border on laid paper (218 x 266)

Hand

Soane

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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